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“I kept listening, kept going to see people, kept sitting in with people, kept listening to records. If I wanted to learn somebody's stuff, like with Clapton, when I wanted to learn how he was getting some of his sounds - which were real neat - I learned how to make the sounds with my mouth and then copied that with my guitar.”

People Ifs Real Wanted Stuff Sound Records Listening Mouths Sitting Guitar Neat

Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

“I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the Elgin marbles in his mouth.”

Knows Men Sound Mouths London Accents Marble Abolish Welsh Hairdresser

Book:Quite Early One Morning

Source: Quite Early One Morning

“The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.”

Eye Sound Mouths Hot Ancient Dry Stomach Engines Cages Palms Jet Ribs Pavement Vacant Travels With Charley Warming Up Rib Cage

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“The secret to writing sound effects is having a room you can be alone in, trying to make the sounds yourself, and seeing what comes out. It's similar to if you're writing a character talking with their mouth full: the only way I know to transcribe that is to stuff my fist in my mouth and write down what sounds I make when I try to talk.”

Ifs Knows Way Writing Trying Book Character Stuff Sound Rooms Secret Talking Seeing Effects Mouths Comic Comic Book Fists Sound Effects

Author:Ryan North

“I have this peculiar ability to be able to anticipate mouth movements on screen and fill them with words or sound.”

Able Sound Ability Movement Mouths Screens Peculiar Anticipate

Author:Frank Welker

“Does a man speak foolishly?--suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?--stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot be gainsaid. Does he speak truly?--rejoice in the truth.”

Men Doe Suffering Speak Sound Talking Wise Mouths Rejoice

Author:Oliver Cromwell

“I've gone into auditions and I think they have an assumption about me when they see my photo and then I open my mouth and they say, 'Where exactly are you from? And you were born in Ethiopia? But you're Irish, but you also kind of sound English. That's really strange.' They want to put you in a box in LA, that's how they tend to do it there, so if you don't fit in that box, it makes it more difficult.”

Ifs Thinking Want Kind Difficult Sound Born Gone Strange Fit Mouths Boxes Assumption Auditions Ethiopia

Author:Ruth Negga

“My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.”

Ifs Would Be Beautiful Film Moving Turns Sound Strange Painting Wind Unique Mouths Mood Layers Portraits Captured Mona Lisa Celluloid

Author:David Lynch

“Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.”

Art Sound Paper Mouths Entertainment Toilets Toilet Paper Brando

Author:Rex Reed

“Describing laughter: The sound is produced by a deep inspiration followed by short, interrupted, spasmodic contractions of the chest, and especially the diaphragm... the mouth is open more or less widely, with the corners drawn much backwards, as well as a little upwards; and the upper lip is somewhat raised.”

Wells Littles Inspiration Sound Laughter Mouths Raised Lips Corners Chests Backwards Describing Interrupted Contractions

Author:Charles Darwin

“some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.”

Soul Eye Song Sound Blood Genius Mouths Hot South Folks Folk Songs

Book:The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer

Source: The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer

“I do have a huge problem, a huge problem. In fact, worse than watching is hearing. I cannot stand to hear my own voice. When it's coming out of my mouth right now it sounds fantastically interesting to me. It's rich in light and shade, it goes up and down. But when I hear it either on TV or even on someone's answering machine, I just sound like I've had half my brain removed.”

Facts Problem Light Sound Voice My Own Interesting Brain Half Rich Tvs Huge Right Now Mouths Machines Hearing Shade Coming Out Up And Down Answering Machines

Author:Hugh Laurie

“To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.”

Done Actors Sound Mouths Frank Translations Linguists

Author:Tom Stoppard

“An accent has to do with the way your mouth works and the sounds that come out of your head, but somehow it informs everything about you.”

Thinking Way Sound Mouths Accents

Author:David Tennant